Overland Park ? Bill Self lofted a chip shot out of heavy grass from about 45 feet to just next to the hole on the 18th green, wrapping up a Bayer Advantage Skins Game championship with partner Tom Watson on Tuesday afternoon at Nicklaus Golf Club at LionsGate.

“Bill was too tough on Kansas State again,” lamented Champions Tour standout Jim Colbert, a graduate of K-State, which is 0-5 versus Self’s Kansas University basketball team the past two years.

Self and golfing Hall of Famer Tom Watson topped Colbert and partner George Brett, two skins to one with one hole tied — or $10,000 (for charity) won to $6,000 in a nine-hole competition shortened to four holes because of stormy weather.

“Hey Bill, I hear you’re going to be giving a short game clinic in a couple of weeks. You need to teach me that little flip shot out of the rough,” Brett said, needling Self, whose 300-yard drive on the first hole, along with a 25-foot birdie putt by Watson, led to a $1,000 skin.

Self’s opening drive was great, but the chip on the final hole is what accounted for an $8,000 skin and an exciting victory for the Self-Watson squad.

“Tom told me exactly where to hit it. That was one of the few times I almost did what he told me to do,” Self said. “When I didn’t blade it across the green, I knew it had a chance to get close. Tom said it was fast. It barely landed on the green, and it rolled right up. It’s exactly what he said would happen.”

Self stepped right up and opened the action with a high, deep 300-yard drive that impressed a crowd that waited out a 38-minute storm delay.

“That was better than Roy used to do,” Colbert screamed into a microphone.

He jokingly was referring to former KU coach Roy Williams, who also played in the Skins Game during his tenure.

“After I saw George rip one about 350 feet, the pressure was on me to put a good swing on one,” Self said. “I actually hit the first one pretty well.”

After winning the first hole, Self stepped up and sliced an iron tee shot on the 211-yard, par-3 second hole into the gallery off the right side of the fairway.

“It’s a five-letter word in golf: shank,” Self said with a grin.

The two teams tied that hole, and Brett and Colbert won a $4,000 skin on the ensuing hole courtesy of Colbert’s eight-foot birdie putt. Self and Watson won the final skin, both teams netting an additional $1,000 for their favorite charity — in Self’s case the Scott Carter Foundation — just for participating.

“I wasn’t nervous,” Self said. “I’d say it was easier this year (that last when his team won just one skin) because I actually have played some. The last two years it was the first time I’d been out. Last year we had distractions (David Padgett transferring).

“This year we haven’t had any distractions so it was easier to go out and play. I’m joking,” he added, everyone well aware that the recent fight outside the Moon Bar is a heck of a distraction.

Self said it was fun just to participate, much less win.

“It’s a thrill for me,” he said. “I’ll be honest with you, I grew up idolizing Tom Watson. I always loved golf. Tom won 11 majors. We talk how great Tiger is, and he is fantastic. He’s won nine.

“Tom is a great person as well. He came and watched us practice this year. Nobody else was in the stands when he was there. Golf is such a challenging game. … The guy who wins is the guy who rolls the best (on greens). Tom made two 20-foot putts in four holes. That’s pretty good.”